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Re: less, misbehaving
- To: Charles Wilson <cwilson at ee dot gatech dot edu>, gnu-win32 at cygnus dot com
- Subject: Re: less, misbehaving
- From: Earnie Boyd <earnie_boyd at yahoo dot com>
- Date: Fri, 2 Oct 1998 04:36:27 -0700 (PDT)
- Reply-To: earnie_boyd at yahoo dot com
What TERM setting are you using?
It is suggested that you `export TERM=linux'.
There are other ports of less, check my web page at
http://www.freeyellow.com/members5/gw32
---Charles Wilson <cwilson@ee.gatech.edu> wrote:
>
> This problem is the only thing delaying a full rollout of gnu-win at
my
> workplace. Can anybody help?
>
> Charles Wilson wrote:
>
> > I'm having some wierd problems with less, and I don't know if it's
my
> > environment settings, or my ncurses library, or what. I'm using less
> > v332 from andy's local.tar.
> >
> > Less operates as expected, until I try to view a file with less
than a
> > full screen of data. If I execute 'less shortfile', the file is
> > displayed in the terminal window, followed by the message: '[1]+
> > Stopped less shortfile'
> >
> > >From that point on, all (?) interactive console mode programs
misbehave.
> > When invoking less on a file with _more_ than a full screen of data,
> > e.g. 'less longfile', the first screen worth of data is displayed
> > followed by '[2]+ Stopped less longfile'. (This identical command
> > worked fine _before_ my 'mistake' with shortfile) Ditto with vi, or
> > hexedit. I can always bring the executable back to the foreground,
and
> > things seem to work okay after that, but this is annoying.
> >
> > Does anybody know what's going on? My cygwin variable is 'tty
notitle
> > ntea binmode'
> >
> > --Chuck Wilson
>
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